CMS Expands Recognition of Technology-Enabled Services

The expansion of technology benefits is key to cost reduction and the clinical management of patient cohorts using clinical teams.

As the healthcare industry slowly transitions to value-based care and technology better enables that move, CMS has expanded Medicare coverage and payment for several technology-enabled services.

Expansion of these various technology benefits is important as they are key to cost reduction and the clinical management of patient cohorts using clinical teams versus traditional one-to-one clinician-patient encounters.

Terminology matters for this expansion of coverage: It is important not to make the mistake of calling these new benefits “telehealth” because telehealth has a specific statutory definition and limited benefits for Medicare that can only be expanded by Congress.